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This month, Saint Paul’s, we will receive not one but two vestry reports. The regular June report will come out the week of the 17th, but the vestry kicked off the month with an on-site retreat, and I’m excited to share with you a few details.
Getting to know one another. While all of us on this vestry know one another casually, our most effective work can be achieved when we become a team, when we know and trust one another well. To that end, we spent time sharing meals, socializing, and praying together.
Speaking of meals, a shout out of thanks goes to Melissa and Eric Friedman for sending in Oy Vey Schmear bagels for breakfast, and another shout out goes to Laurie and Molly Montgomery who prepared a salad bar to beat all salad bars.
Invite, Welcome, Connect. A primary focus of our work over the weekend was to study the ways we welcome visitors to Saint Paul’s and connect newcomers to our various ministries and to ourselves as parishioners. We proclaim “No matter who you are…you are welcome in this church,” but what intentional steps can we take to make sure visitors feel they are welcome and newcomers feel they are connected?
Praying together. Most importantly, your vestry prayed together. In the intimate setting of the small chapel, we prayed Compline and Morning Prayer and celebrated the Eucharist. The Eucharist came between two long work sessions on Saturday, and Fr. Eric’s homily offered encouraging and empowering messages for all of us at Saint Paul’s.
“…because the work we are invited into is really the work of God, we can engage in it wholeheartedly without fear of failure. It is our privilege to play our role in God’s redemption of the world—but God does the redeeming, not us.”
“Whatever obstacles we might toss out for why we are not fit to lead God’s people in this place, or are not equal to the tasks before us, God might well see as qualifications…Jesus cuts through the brambles of anxiety we so often find ourselves in by inviting us to consider the lilies of the field and the ravens of the air…redirecting our attention from scarcity and harried-ness to the abundance of God and the priority of God’s kingdom.”
“If we give here our talents and time to the kingdom of God, rather than to our own imagined picture of what Saint Paul’s should be, then we cannot fail. So let us work with good cheer and unquenchable hope. Thanks be to God. Amen.”
And, amen.
Kitty Gordon
Senior Warden
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EVENTS THIS SUNDAY | June 9 | |
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Sunday Worship Schedule for 06/09/24
8 AM Rite I
11 AM Rite II
11 AM Facebook Live
11 AM YouTube Live
5:30 PM - Celtic Evening Prayer & Communion
6:30 PM - Compline + Sit and Wait
All of our Sunday worship services are in-person.
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The Nursery will be open Sun, June 9
9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
We are pleased to announce that the Saint Paul’s nursery is open for children 6 months to 4 years of age. The nursery will be available this Sunday morning beginning at 9:00.
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Continental Breakfast this Sunday
Sunday, 9 - 10 AM Tyler Hall
Join us for Coffee, Continental breakfast, and Conversation this Sunday in Tyler Hall at 9 AM. Donations welcomed.
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No Sunday Forum this week only
Sunday, June 9
This Sunday we're taking a quick break at the Sunday forum as we share fellowship at the lake and a morning Eucharist at our Parish Day: Eat, Pray, Swim. The forum returns next Sunday.
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Veterans' Ice Cream Social
Sunday, June 9, 2:30-3:30 PM
Dish and serve ice cream and cookies at our quarterly Veteran’s Social June 9, 2:30-3:30 PM. We’ll meet at the GA War Veterans’ Nursing Home located at 1101 15th Street to share a dessert and then spend much-appreciated time visiting. All ages are welcome to participate. For more information contact Gene Helmich
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Celtic Evening Prayer and Communion
With Prayers for Healing
Sundays, 5:30 PM
Celtic Evening Prayer and Communion is a candle-lit service that emphasizes the contemplative side of worship, features some of Augusta’s best Celtic musicians, and offers prayers for healing for those attending, for others, and for the world. Come as you are and enter into a place of rest, prayer, and reflection.
Erin Montgomery is our guest musician this week.
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Sit and Wait this Sunday
Sundays, 6:30 PM, Chapel
Sit and Wait follows the Celtic Service Sunday evenings (6:30 PM). The service begins with a Service of Compline and will end with a twenty-minute sit. The people end in silence.
Please email Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau or contact by phone at (706) 910-9331 for further information.
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Building Bridges: Saint Paul's in the Community | | |
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Look for this listing of where Saint Paul's
is building relationships in Augusta and the CSRA.
Next Week
June 10, 2024 - 1:30 PM Saint Paul's will host a meeting of the Housing Subcommittee of the Augusta Taskforce for the Homeless in the Berlin Room. Fr. Eric is an active member of the subcommittee.
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Summer Camp at Honey Creek
Honey Creek is a wonderful and safe place to support and nurture the spiritual needs of children. Campers will further develop their values and personal faith in Jesus among newfound friends and peers.
Honey Creek Camp begins in June and there is still time to register. Cost for camp: $635 per child. Scholarship assistance is available. For more information about scholarships, contact Fr. Biddy. High School Camp, June 2-8, 2024; Middle School Camp, June 9-15, 2024; Elementary School Camp, June 16-22, 2024.
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Compline - ZOOM
Wednesdays, 8 - 8:15 PM
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Join Zoom
Meeting ID: 595 177 454
Dial-In: (646) 876-9923
Password: Email the Parish Office to request.
Compline is a beautiful, simple, and quiet service to end the day together in prayer with God. This service is led by members of the parish using an on-screen bulletin so everyone may pray together.
Following the prayers, those who gather through Zoom have an opportunity for a mid-week visit.
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Mid-Week Eucharist
Thursdays, 11:30 AM
A mid-week Eucharist in the Chapel begins at 11:30 AM. Lunch in the Berlin Room follows at 12 noon with a weekly Bible study (more information below.) Join us as your schedule allows: Come for Eucharist and lunch, lunch and Bible study, or stay for all three. (So that we may honor mid-day schedules, lunch is scheduled for 15 minutes and will continue through the Bible study conversations.)
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Lectio at Lunch
Thursdays, 12 Noon, Tyler Hall
Every Thursday in Tyler Hall you’ll find a lunch combo that can’t be beat! We offer a tasty meal with a generous helping of fellowship, plus a lively discussion arising from the Gospel of Mark. Our text is N.T. Wright’s Mark for Everyone which takes this Gospel in small bites, reflecting on each week’s reading with relevant and important insights. We finish promptly at 1:00 PM and invite you to join us as your schedule allows. You may bring your own lunch or share in the meal provided. Donations accepted.
Questions? Contact Kitty Gordon.
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Master's Table Soup Kitchen
Saturday, June 15, Two Shifts
8:30-10:30 AM or 10:30-12:30 PM
The Masters Table Soup Kitchen at 702 Fenwick Street will be staffed by Saint Paul’s Church volunteers on Saturday, June 15th. We need 6 volunteers to prepare the food from 8:30 to 10:30 AM (18+) and 12 volunteers to serve the food and cleanup in the dining room from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM (13+). Signup using the link below. For more information contact Al or Laraine Yarbrough.
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Dates for your calendar
June 17 - Vestry Meeting
July 7 - Independence Day Service
July 7 - Parish BBQ
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Caregivers' Support Group
Thursday, June 27, 3:30 PM, The Chapel
Caregivers’ support group will meet Thursday, June 27, 3:30 PM in the chapel. This group provides support for people caring for people they love (our first thought is ailing spouses, aging parents, children who need extra attention, and other relations of mutuality in which one-way care has grown), but anyone who is a caregiver for another is welcome. Contact Fr. Eric for more information.
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Quiet Morning: "God Within Us"
Beginning in the Chapel
Saturday, June 29, 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
The Daughters of the King invite you to a spiritual morning of quiet solitude 9:30 AM - 1:30 PM. Bring "prayer tools" such as your bible, journal, or anything used for meditation. Led by The Rev. Kimberly Dunn. For more information contact Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau.
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Help Us Celebrate Independence Day
Included in this year’s Independence Day service will be patriotic music performed by guest musicians. You are invited to help make this possible by making donations in memory of a loved one, a veteran, an active-duty member of the military, or in thanksgiving for someone or something about America that you would like to celebrate or recognize. Please be in touch with Director of Music Keith Shafer or call him, (706) 724-2485 ext. 215. The deadline is Sunday, June 30th.
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A Few Notes on the "Management" of our Prayer List
Our official prayer list is an important part of our community of prayer, organizing our prayers for our beloveds. In order for our prayer list to be effective, we must all stay connected to the list, so we ask that you contact the parish office to update us on the status of your prayer request with a quick email monthly.
Twice a year the parish will begin a new prayer list: July 1 and January 1. Of course, it is fine for a name to remain on our list for an extended period of time; we ask that you simply email the parish office to let us know you’d like a name (new or continuing) to be added to our new list.
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Donate Summer Music
Donate summer music in memory or in thanksgiving. The choirs began this year’s vacation on May 26th. Please contact Keith Shafer, Director of Music, who can provide you with more complete information at kshafer@saintpauls.org.
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Daughters of the King Discernment Classes
The St. Ruth Byllesby Chapter of the Order of the Daughters of the King (DoK) will offer discernment classes for new members. DoK is an international prayer and service order in the Episcopal Church. To find out more about their ministries at Saint Paul’s and for more information about the classes, please email Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau.
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Gifts to Saint Paul's Church | |
Gifts can be made using the link below, on-line at saintpauls.org/giving, or by mail to Saint Paul’s Church, 605 Reynolds St., Augusta, GA 30901. Thank you for your generosity. | | | |
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